This is another event in UCL’s series of seminars addressing new
developments and topics in the library and publishing domain. It will focus on
the one hand on the increasing provision of library based web discovery engines
such as Summon, EDS and Primo, which are capable of supporting concurrent
searching of very large data sets, either licensed or open access, and which are
now in place in almost all university libraries in the UK. There is also uptake
by others such as public libraries and archives and the general public through
the "Access to Research" initiative supported by the PLS and the PA. Indeed it
has been argued that such tools could eventually displace library catalogues
altogether and are most certainly a significant new tool for information
discovery. At the same time there is a clear and emerging need for publishers
to address the issue of how they make their content discoverable in this
increasingly digital world. Ideas and applications such as semantic enhancement,
linked data, taxonomies and recommender systems are being touted as solutions
but need work and investment to bring about. Publishers are also implementing
their own discovery systems with enhanced or domain specific functions. So what
lessons are to be learned from those providing discovery engines and what must
publishers do to ensure their content achieves both prominence and relevance in
the digital environment. This seminar will bring together specialists in
providing and supporting discovery engines and publishers experience and
guidance in delivering content. Delegates will understand more about discovery
engines, how they are being deployed and used and how publishers are making
their content findable in these environments. Speakers have already been agreed
from the University of Huddersfield, the Publishers Licensing Society, Taylor
and Francis, the Architectural Association, OCLC, 67Bricks, Editeur,
UCL.
The seminar will be at the usual UCL favourable rate of £110 with a discounted rate for students.